Gherardo Colombo

Gherardo Colombo (23 June 1946-) was an Italian magistrate who served as one of the judges in the Tangentopoli investigation of the 1990s.

Biography
Gherardo Colombo was born in Briosco, Lombardy, Italy in 1946, and he had a 33-year-long career as a magistrate in Milan. He worked on the 1979 Giorgio Ambrosoli murder case, the Propaganda Due Freemason lodge, off the books money at the IRI public holding company, and on the Tangentopoli case of the 1990s. He was one of the judges in the corruption investigation against the corrupt public leaders involved in Tangentopoli, and Colombo and Antonio di Pietro were hailed as heroes by the public for their fight against crime. Colombo resigned from the judiciary in 2007, arguing that the fight against crime should not only occur in the legal arena.